d'anver lovers,discuss the breed and post some pics!

[speckledhen]

Hi all. Living in a 30 ft Coachman motor home in my driveway, waiting for renovation to begin on my house, typing on DH's laptop so takes effort to hit the right keys; my computer and all other electronics were either too smoke damaged to keep or are out to try to be cleaned and evaluated.

Aimee has one huge Delawegger chick and two bantam Cochin babies, one black and one blue, from the feedstore, because the Dellie is spoken for and I didnt want to take it from her and leave her chick-less. The blue is super tiny and not sure it will survive, though Aimee is really giving it a fighting chance; We named it Mouse, lol. Keeps getting pasty butt.

Carly had one Delawegger chick hatch yesterday. Mina's zipped and we found it dead in shell. Big chick, not sure if she crushed it, though shell wasn't really crushed. Could be it was just too large to get out of Panda's sort of small egg. Sad, because it was her only ever chick and descended from some very special beloved birds of ours. Mina is not maternal, never does the food call, growls at other chicks, even when broody, so do not trust her. Have pics but cannot download from camera now-what a PAIN to be without the computer and the usual stuff of mine.


Have to quit typing-this is killing my carpal tunnel, bad angle on table in the trailer and unused to this keyboard.

 

[NanaKat]

Sorry for the chick loss and hope Mouse gets better. House renovation is no picnic so hoping yours is quick and easy on the stress levels.

 

[MaryRuthLangdon]

Loving all the pics.... pretty birds.

 

[KrisH]

Hi all. Living in a 30 ft Coachman motor home in my driveway, waiting for renovation to begin on my house, typing on DH's laptop so takes effort to hit the right keys; my computer and all other electronics were either too smoke damaged to keep or are out to try to be cleaned and evaluated.

Have to quit typing-this is killing my carpal tunnel, bad angle on table in the trailer and unused to this keyboard.

PM me your address and I will be happy to have KrisH send you a USB keyboard and mouse (I have spares)

RobertH

 

[speckledhen]

That is so generous, but I'm sure I'll have the go-ahead to get a new one in a couple of days. There were 3 that were total losses, but they are trying to clean mine since it was furtherest from the fire (though it was still black with soot inside). Just a minor inconvenience. Will be here for at least a month to six weeks, depending on how it all goes. Thanks for the offer, though, Robert!

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

hate to hear all that Cynthia, yall will be in my prayersm sounds like yall may need it!! What a run of bad luck yall have had... and on such nice people... hope things get fixed up quick for you

 

[speckledhen]

Thanks, Aubrey. Means a lot to me.

I had to separate Carly and her one Del/EE chick from Aimee and her three chicks, which include two Cochins and one Del/Ee baby, half sibling to Carly's. Carly's single one wants to be with Aimee's group and Aimee doesn't hurt it when it comes into her little group, but Carly leaves her little one to go hunt down Aimee's Delawegger kid, which looks much like hers except that it has lots of black in the wings and is a week older. How weird is that?! I put Carly and her little one in the cage in the storage area of the bantam coop with a heat lamp because I don't have time to sit out there and watch out for aimee's fat yellow Delawegger baby. Carly has something against the yellow chick that looks like hers, but pretty much ignores the blue and black Cochin chicks.

Btw, Mouse, the teeny blue one, is getting weaker. It has not grown since we got it. It's two weeks old and the size of a newly hatched chick. Even the wings aren't really growing. When it gets knocked over, it can't get to its feet. Still eats and drinks and Aimee spends lots of time sitting just keeping that one warm while the other two are running around her. Probably won't make it. Another weak hatchery chick. Had a Sussex from Ideal do exactly the same thing. Died at 2 weeks old. She never grew, though her wings got bigger and bigger, her body never did.

 

[speckledhen]

I finally just put the two boys up for rehoming for free and my Aubrey up for sale cheap. He's a proven breeder and gorgeous so I figure he's worth at least the $5 I'm asking for him. Mouse is still okay! She is eating, drinking and able to follow Aimee wherever she has to go, but she is so fragile, that she gets bowled over easily and may become hurt or killed by the older birds accidentally. She also becomes chilled more easily than the larger Cochin the same age. I think she's just a runt, typical hatchery crud. And the black one appears to have vulture hocks--seems that I recall Cochins should not have vulture hocks, right? Par for the course, though. Didn't expect anything different or better from the big hatcheries.

Here are some pics of Spike, Sam, Maura, Aubrey and the two broodies with their babies. The yellow ones are Delaweggers, i.e., Delaware over EE on the one with lots of black and Del over my BLRW/Ameraucana hen on Carly's solid yellow one (the mama is red)























And poor, sweet Lucy, who is molting and missing her tail feathers:

 

[Ducclelover10]

My d'Anver jumped on my back today and rode around on me for about 5 to 10 minutes!

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

Thanks for the update SpeckledHen. Glad to hear y'all have a nice RV to camp in for awhile.

This too shall pass! I hope you can make the renovations soon.